Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
   The Millenium bug! Are you kidding?

Columns:

Ayoob on firearms:
   Four X .44 — the logical backwoods handgun

Recipes:
   Your honey will love your sweet buns
   Solar oven casseroles are good and easy
   Wild raspberries — summertime's finest treat

Original Poems:
   Lee Ann Murphy
   John Earl Silveira
   Deborah Rolland

Irreverent joke page

Contents

Building/Tools

• Build your own portable forge

Making a living

• If you just love those books, here's how to make money with them
• The emu and ostrich craze — Why won't the big birds fly?
• Spousal support in a small business — it means tolerance, love and faith in the future
• I grow my homestead fund by stitching "ditty bags"
• He combined crab pots with car repair to make his business go
• Elephant garlic as a cash crop
• Here's how one man made the transition from city to country
• Self-publishing can be profitable but stay clear of vanity presses
• A determined Rose Bley escaped the city
• Supplement your income by raising exotic tortoises

Farm/Garden

• Perk up the cash flow by selling farm produce
• Try growing the popular potato
• The pecan is a nut to love
• Use non-hybrid seeds and save big bucks in this year's garden
• Dixie butterpeas — not just for the South

Country living

• Remembering "the good life"
• Extend the vase life of flowers
• Build a fish pond — just for fun

Crafts

• Make a fun stick whistle

The old days

• Hope chest memories